Job 33:20
So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
In Context
19He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,
21His flesh faileth that it can not be seene, and his bones which were not seene, clatter.
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
Psalms 107:18Their soule abhorreth al meat, and they are brought to deaths doore.
Amos 5:11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shall not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drinke wine of them.
Matthew Henry on Job 33:20-29
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: 24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down… Read the whole commentary →